In three decades, Costa Rica went from exporting raw materials to becoming a global leader in medical manufacturing, offering valuable lessons for Latin America.

The gig economy in Latin America offers flexibility and income opportunities, but also deepens inequality and labor precariousness.

Biomimicry could pave the way to more efficient and sustainable AI architectures. Latin America, with 60% of global biodiversity, has strategic advantages to lead this transition, provided it strengthens infrastructure, regulation and regional scientific cooperation.

Latin America and the Caribbean must shift from endurance to resilience to protect achievements and advance human development amid uncertainty.

Latin America is reviving old development fantasies under new technological guises, while the structural dependence that Stavenhagen denounced six decades ago persists.

The impacts of climate change are not hypothetical futures in the Greater Caribbean: they are an everyday reality.